On a black tile using my prisma colorpencils. A new technique to me I have never tried before, and the result is GREAT, the colors are very intense, even more in real than in this picture. A lovely technique I intend to do more often.

This is the one I like the least. The colors are not as bright as hoped they would be. The heart I did with red metalic gelpen, colored with bits of neon pink. And outside the heart I did betweed with a green metalic pen colored with neon green. The metalic pens look all like silver, and the neon turned out to be dark instead of real neon. I think it is debt to the quality of the pens I used. So I have to try it some time with better gelpens.

Last but not least, my white zendala. As a string a used a big flower, and started to fill the petals with betweed. I drew some petals behind and filled them with betweed too, and did a black striping in the middle of betweed ribbons (Arggg I shouldn't have done that).

Recently I bought a box with watercolor paint and this challenge came just at the right time to try my colors. I did some mixing with the colors to get Pink (at least it looked to me like a nice pink color, arghhhh on paper it turned out to be more red than pink)

I did some googling about watercolor washes for background papers, and started my art journey.

#3 : I just wanted to do something with real, real pink, so this one I first tangled my paper, and after that I took my inktense derwent colorpencils, and in the box there is a real pink one, so no mixing needed to get the color I want.

I had a great time making these pieces in honour of all the brave women, and of course their families too, who have to fight against breastcancer.

Last week I had no time to blog, so this week I show my tile for challenge 188 and 189. The first one is #188. A young boy of 12 years old emailed Laura to ask her to make the weekly challenge for the national coming out day. He wanted to help his friend. What a great gesture of this young person. The challenge was to use rainbow colours, or tangles starting with the letters LGBT.My choice was to do a colorful tile. En #189 een UMT opdracht waarbij het patroon Yuma de eer te beurt viel. Een leuke tangle, die ik wel wat moeilijk vond om te tekenen, maar die helemaal tot zijn recht komt nadat de schaduw is aangebracht. Ik heb eerst een string getekend, en ben in het onderste deel begonnen met Yuma, vervolgens heb ik de lijnen aan de bovenkant verlengd zodat het net lange bladeren worden, en deze gevuld met Quandary, en als laatste wat zinger toegevoegd.

The second one is #189. A UMT challenge. And this month we have to use Yuma. A very nice tangle. A bit challenging to draw but once shading, it comes alive and it is really awesome. I started with a string, and tangled the bottom part with Yuma. After that I made the upper lines longer so there was growing a leave out of the Yuma. I filled the leaves with Quandary and put some zinger on the sides.

Tuesday october 7th 2014 I did my very first Zentangle Basic Workshop. It was AWESOME!I had 4 enthusiastic ladies, who made beautiful artwork. Lisette, Lindsay Marianne and Elly thanks, we all had a great time.